Top of the World (The Carpenters song)
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| Cover to the single "Top of the World" | |||||
| Single by The Carpenters | |||||
| from the album A Song For You | |||||
| A-side | "Top of the World" | ||||
| B-side | "Heather" | ||||
| Released | September 17, 1973 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | 1972–1973 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 2:56 | ||||
| Label | A&M Records 1468 |
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| Writer(s) | Richard Carpenter; John Bettis | ||||
| Producer | Jack Daugherty | ||||
| Certification | Gold Single | ||||
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| Lynn Anderson's 1973 Top of the World album. | |||||
| Single by Lynn Anderson | |||||
| from the album Top of the World | |||||
| A-side | "Top of the World" | ||||
| Released | 1973 | ||||
| Format | 45 rpm record | ||||
| Recorded | 1972 | ||||
| Genre | Country pop | ||||
| Length | 2:55 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Writer(s) | Richard Carpenter; John Bettis | ||||
| Producer | Glenn Sutton, Clive Davis | ||||
| Certification | Gold Single | ||||
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"Top of the World" is the name of a 1973 song by The Carpenters. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973, becoming the duo's second U.S. number-one single. Originally intended to be only an album cut for the Carpenters, Lynn Anderson covered the song; Anderson's version reached #2 on the U.S. country singles charts in mid-1973. The success of Anderson's version prompted the Carpenters to release a new version as a single, where it topped the U.S. pop singles chart. The song is equally identified with both The Carpenters and Lynn Anderson. Karen Carpenter re-recorded the song for the band's first compilation as she was not quite satisfied with the original. Brother Richard Carpenter has remixed the song's vocals, most recently for their 35th Anniversary Gold compilation.
In Cash Box magazine, "Top of the World" was number one on December 1, 1973.
| Chart | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Easy Listening | 2 |
| Record World | 3 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Oricon (Japanese) Singles Chart | 21 |
| UK Singles Chart | 5 |
[edit] Other cover versions
Swedish dansband Vikingarna had a 1974 Svensktoppen hit with a cover version in Swedish, "På världens tak", which was the first Vikingarna song at Svensktoppen [1].
In 1992, Björk covered the song still on The Sugarcubes and it was included on their album titled Walkabout.
Shonen Knife's cover was the ending theme song to the 1995 film The Last Supper and appeared in the 1998 film The Parent Trap.
In 2006, a Bossa-Nova version of the song was included in Naomi's & Goro album titled [HOME].
A Cantonese Christian song by the name of 冰天的太陽 was written using the melody of the song.
[edit] See also
| Preceded by "Photograph" by Ringo Starr |
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single (Carpenters version) December 1, 1973 — December 8, 1973 |
Succeeded by "The Most Beautiful Girl" by Charlie Rich |
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